> This is not a useful definition of fascism, if that is what you mean. Fascism can exist entirely independently of capitalism, and has done.
I think you should look up the definition and history of fascism. You're correct about totalitarism, but fascism is by definition capitalist.
What do you mean? The defining feature of capitalism is private/corporate ownership of the means of production which is a core part of fascism as well.
Fascist corporatism is as radically opposed to capitalism as Leninist “democratic centralism” is (and, arguably, despite the opposing rhetorical stance, in very much the same substantive direction in practice.)
I think it is you who should look up the definition and history of fascism.
Fascism usually exists in a capitalist context — but "by definition"? No.
Because there is literally no evidence he ever said it. It's a widespread but false attribution, as I outlined in another comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239664
This attribution leads to a truly fundamentally broken reduction of what Mussolini actually thought fascism was (though his own definition of it was largely pseudointellectual drivel).
But even then, "corporatism" doesn't mean "capitalism" at all.